From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24555 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2003 04:05:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24548 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2003 04:05:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Nov 2003 04:05:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 4472 invoked by uid 10); 23 Nov 2003 04:05:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 15005 invoked by uid 500); 23 Nov 2003 04:05:20 -0000 To: Christopher Faylor Cc: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: qmail-smtpd was not running References: <20031123040016.GA28254@redhat.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 04:05:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20031123040016.GA28254@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-q4/txt/msg00172.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor writes: > >We may want to move qmail under /service, rather than running it via > >/etc/rc.d/init.d. I think that will be more reliable, as it means > >that programs will be automatically restarted by svscan if they fail > >or are killed for some reason. I can do this if nobody objects. > > I'd rather not, actually. I have to stop qmail from time to time and > I'd rather use "service" to do it. I'm not sure why it didn't restart > when I started it today, though. I just tried it again, and it seemed > to be ok. If we put qmail under /service, then you stop it using svc -d /service/qmail and you restart it using svc -u /service/qmail Admittedly a new set of commands, but not too hard to use. Ian